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Caroline Aksich

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Writer, researcher, urban explorer, amateur botanist, turophile. Member of the Montreal diaspora. Proud Torontonian.
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Where Rudy owner Luke McCann eats in the Annex and Yorkville

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Is Toronto the ultimate fast-food incubator? Swiss Chalet, Harvey’s, the Burger’s Priest and Fresh all began as single restaurants before growing into quick-service chains that eventually landed in corporate portfolios. These days, independently owned Toronto-born chains are becoming an endangered species. Rudy is one of the few holdouts. Back in 2016, Rudy was a tiny College Street burger joint serving smash burgers before half the city knew what a smash burger was.
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Where to Eat Now

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By Caroline Aksich Verified, Erin Hershberg Verified, Jessica Huras Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Another year, another round of consistently excellent restaurants. It seems that nothing—not the precarious economy, not the turbo-charged price of groceries—can stop Toronto’s food scene. But they can change it. Chefs with fine-dining backgrounds are turning to more casual formats, menus are tighter and, wow, are there ever a lot of burgers, pasta and wedge salads—not that we’re complaining. Difficult times spark creativity, and we found examples of this in every corner of the city.
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One hundred pivotal moments in the history of Toronto dining

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
1. The Senator (est. 1929) Born as the Busy Bee Diner, renamed in ’48, a jazz club added in ’90—and still serving fry-ups almost a century on. 2. The Lakeview (est. 1932) A 24-hour time capsule in Trinity-Bellwoods with more IMDb credits than some C-listers. The Lakeview screenshot via YouTube 3. Peter Pan (est. 1936) A no-frills Queen West lunch spot for 15-cent onion sandwiches gets hip in ’74, when Sandy Stagg and co. take over. A young Susur Lee makes a kitchen cameo. 4. Fran’s (est.
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In Hong Kong, Toronto chef Eva Chin finds culinary greatness in both stalls and stars

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Calgary Herald Verified
Article content Chin taking a bite of charcoal-roast goose at Yung Kee. Photo by CAROLINE AKSICH /POSTMEDIA Article content “In North America, people want everything in one place. In Hong Kong, you go to one place for one thing,” she told me. “Sometimes three places for one meal. Article content Here, specialization isn’t a quirk. It’s survival. With this much density, you stand out by doing one thing  better than anyone else. One dish refined to the point of obsession. You don’t improve by adding.
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In Hong Kong, Toronto chef Eva Chin finds culinary greatness in both stalls and stars

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| London Free Press Verified
“In North America, people want everything in one place. In Hong Kong, you go to one place for one thing,” she told me. “Sometimes three places for one meal. Here, specialization isn’t a quirk. It’s survival. With this much density, you stand out by doing one thing better than anyone else. One dish refined to the point of obsession. You don’t improve by adding. You improve by repeating, obsessing, perfecting.
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In Hong Kong, Toronto chef Eva Chin finds culinary greatness in both stalls and stars

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| National Post Verified
After seven years away, the chef behind Yan Dining Room returns in pursuit of perfection — from plastic stools to Michelin-starred restaurants Chef Eva Chin, the chef behind Toronto's neo-Chinese restaurant Yan Dining Room, tucks into the sesame-skin suckling pig at Moon Bay in Hong Kong. /POSTMEDIA Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.
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In Hong Kong, Toronto chef Eva Chin finds culinary greatness in both stalls and stars

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| O Canada Verified
After seven years away, the chef behind Yan Dining Room returns in pursuit of perfection — from plastic stools to Michelin-starred restaurants • Chef Eva Chin, the chef behind Toronto's neo-Chinese restaurant Yan Dining Room, tucks into the sesame-skin suckling pig at Moon Bay in Hong Kong. /POSTMEDIA Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.
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For $200,000, this director transformed his art deco loft into a live-in film set

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
The Place A 1,650-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-plus-one-bathroom live-work hard loft in an art deco former warehouse near Fort York. The History For years, director Justin Wu was obsessed with the Tip Top Lofts on Lake Shore, combing through old listings and memorizing floor plans until he narrowed his interest to just four units. When one of them surfaced on Facebook Marketplace in September of 2024, Wu lobbed a lowball offer.
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What’s on the menu at Canada’s very first Eggslut

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Name: Eggslut Contact: 545 King St. W., 647-426-7258, eggslut.ca Neighbourhood: King West Owner: Westridge Hospitality Chef: Alvin Cailan Previously: Porchetta and Co. Accessibility: Not fully accessible The billboards announcing “a new slut in town” have had prudish Torontonians clutching their pearls—and everyone else lining up for breakfast. This city, it seems, is horny for eggs—and for US restaurant concepts.
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Toronto’s best afternoon tea experiences

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Caught between colonial hangover and cultural osmosis, Canada has always teetered between British tradition and American influence. But, in an era when a certain president continues to float the idea of Canada as the 51st state, leaning into our royalist roots feels like a particularly refined form of protest. Here, all kinds of splendid tea services where you can put those pinkies (the demure, salon version of elbows) up.
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The best Toronto restaurants that double as affordable wedding venues

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
If you’re planning a wedding in Toronto, there’s no shortage of magnificent backdrops—botanical gardens, the Toronto Reference Library, even Old City Hall. But, when you factor in cost, the options get slimmer. Sure, there are the legendarily affordable museum and cultural centre rentals, but they’re also legendarily booked up. If you want to save money, restaurants can offer surprisingly solid value—especially if you’re willing to wed on a weeknight.
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Can you find this missing freeziemobile?

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Geladona owners Florenca Bortolacci (left) and Mariana Palhares, with their freeziemobile in happier times. Photo by Daniel Neuhaus In a bold, unsolicited act of “re-homing,” a vintage ice cream bike has disappeared—and its owners are trying to track it down before peak popsicle season. Florenca Bortolacci and Mariana Palhares run Geladona, a Corso Italia café serving brunch, sandwiches and desserts.
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Four family members, nine seats, 20 courses: inside Toronto’s sweetest new omakase restaurant

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Name: The Onda Contact: 750 St. Clair Ave. W., theonda.ca, @onda_toronto Neighbourhood: Wychwood Owners: Yoongil Choi, Yoonmi Choi, Sunil Woo and Jiyoung Kim Chefs: Yoongil Choi (Yasu, Okeya Kyujiro) and Sunil Woo Accessibility: Not accessible (washroom in basement) Toronto has no shortage of omakase counters, but few feel this personal: one service a night, nine seats, four family members and nearly 50 years of experience behind the knives.
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The Best Cellar List

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Photo by Lauren Miller 1 The Vintner Who: Lucas Labelle, owner of Labelle Wines, and Tyler Reaume, publicist Neighbourhood: Summerhill Size of collection: 650 bottles Most expensive bottle: 2017 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche Grand Cru Best bottle: 2017 Domaine Jean Yves Bizot Echezeaux Grand Cru Best bargain: Domaine Les Carmels Les Caprices Merlot Before Labelle ever dreamed of launching a wine agency, he and Reaume, his husband, were living in a condo teetering on the edge of a...
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There’s a petition to double the space at Allan Gardens’ conservatory

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Photo by Arrush Chopra/NurPhoto via Getty Images The conservatory at Allan Gardens is one of the most beautiful spaces in Toronto: a gorgeous Victorian building topped with a glass dome and filled with all manner of succulents, cacti and bromeliads. It’s also one of the few remaining public spaces in the city, functioning as a sort of public square with palms.
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Five of the Toronto’s most hard-core new fitness clubs

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Reformd Neighbourhood: Entertainment District Who Goes Here: The mat-Pilates-is-for-peasants crowd Best Perk: Flattering selfie lighting Bougie Factor: 4/5 What It Costs: $34 per visit or $360 a month for unlimited classes The punishing Pilates-adjacent workout known as Lagree has a cult following. It’s long been rumoured to be the secret behind toned, firm celebrity bodies—at least pre-Ozempic.
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Inside the world’s toughest culinary showdown: The S. Pellegrino Young Chef Competition

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Foodism (Toronto) Verified
Only a sliver of humanity is wired for kitchen life — those fueled by obsession, purpose and the thrill of feeding strangers night after night. Everyone else burns out. The Food Network fantasy of becoming the next Gordon Ramsay evaporates the moment reality hits: 70-hour weeks, thin margins and exhaustion that rivals medical residency. A few cooks, though, don’t flinch — they accelerate. Victoria Rinsma is one of them.
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The best sauna–cold plunge circuits in Toronto - Toronto Life

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
In a city that treats burnout as a lifestyle, recovery has become a competitive sport. And in the past month alone, Toronto’s contrast-therapy scene has exploded. Five new openings—Aire, Sana, a second location of Alter, Löyly Floating Sauna and 10XTO’s Contrast Zone—have arrived in quick succession, all offering the same promise: get very hot, get very cold, repeat until your brain stops spiralling.
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The outrageous customer behaviour Toronto restaurateurs can't stand

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Photo by Dimensions/Getty Images There’s never been a more punishing time to be a restaurant owner in Toronto. With the cost of everything climbing and margins shrinking, restaurateurs are having to raise prices just to keep the lights on. As a diner, it’s hard not to feel the sting—going out for a meal is more expensive than it’s ever been. The trouble starts when that sting starts to feel like entitlement.
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“I will always be in kitchens—even when I die:” Chef Didier Leroy on leaving LSL and what happens next - Toronto Life

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Didier Leroy (left) with fellow LSL chefs Masaki Saito and Christian Le Squer Photo by Ashley van der Laan LSL, the city’s nine-seat, $680-a-head experiment in ultra-fine dining, has, up until now, been helmed by three heavyweights: Masaki Saito, Christian Le Squer and Didier Leroy—the Frenchest of Toronto’s French chefs and a fixture in this city’s kitchens for nearly four decades.
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"Rodney was one of the great pearls of our industry": Toronto chefs and restaurateurs remember oyster expert Rodney Clark

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Photo courtesy of the Clark family Toronto’s restaurant industry lost a singular force earlier this month. Rodney Clark, the PEI-born oyster expert, passed away on November 6 from heart failure. He was 75 years old. Known across the city as the “urban oysterman,” he was a fixture of Toronto’s food scene: part raconteur, part ringmaster, part seafood evangelist. Long before oysters were on menus city-wide, he showed Toronto diners that seafood could be fun, local and a little unruly.
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Oysterman Rodney Clark created ‘joyful chaos’ at his Toronto eatery

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| The Globe and Mail Verified
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The restaurant group behind Canoe and Aera just opened a new sky-high venue

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
The Financial District just got a posh new penthouse. SixtyEight is the result of an unlikely pairing: KingSett Capital, the real estate fund behind half of the city’s skyline, and Oliver and Bonacini, the restaurant group that has catered many of the city’s weddings. Together, they’ve built a 20,000-square-foot space on the—you guessed it—68th floor of Scotia Plaza that’s equal parts private lounge and high-altitude event venue. A section of the space is reserved for Scotia Plaza’s tenants.
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Six of the city’s best private dining rooms for hassle-free holiday parties

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Makilala 105 Church St., makilala.ca Private room capacity: 16 seated Perfect for: Groups looking to belt out tunes in between bites 1 Nuit and Jeff Regular are best known for their Thai empire. But, at Makilala, they’re featuring Jeff’s Filipino roots in a riotous spot where karaoke is considered a main course. The party room is furnished to look like Lola’s home, with family pictures and old trophies.
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A Queen West cocktail bar is rebranding itself as an all-day restaurant with a "diner-ish" menu

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Toronto’s restaurants are in year four of a squeeze that won’t quit. Since 2021, the cost of food, labour and rent has marched in one direction: up. Tapering, maybe, but never reversing. Menus shrink, hours tighten and the idea of a double-digit dinner bill now feels quaint. For Adrian Ravinsky, the owner of 416 Snack Bar and its younger sibling, Short Turn, the question isn’t how to stay afloat—it’s how to evolve.
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Inside a weed-fuelled wellness getaway in Ontario

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Escapism (Toronto) Verified
My toes are dancing. Tapping the air. Wriggling with glee. For a second — or maybe an hour (who can say?) — I’m miles from my consciousness, with only my extremities joyfully responding to the plucking of a mysterious string instrument somewhere above my head. Then, just as the two psychotherapists and the plant elder (yes, that’s the job title) break into off-key a cappella harmony, I crash back to reality.
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A Toronto pizzeria took home first prize at Canada’s top pizza competition

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Toronto just scored big at Canada’s top pizza competition—with a Detroit-style pie. Of course we did: we don’t have a signature pizza style of our own, but if there’s one thing Toronto does well, it’s cultural remixing. Give us a Motor City classic, then throw on some jerk chicken, mango chutney and a dash of chaos, and voilà—it’s suddenly very Toronto.
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Iconic Dishes

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By Christine Peddie, Katie Bridges Verified, Caroline Aksich Verified, Hunter Gutman
| Foodism (Toronto) Verified
Iconic Dishes Yannick Bigourdan grew up in the hospitality business, and you can feel and taste the decades of experience at The Carbon Bar, his Queen Street staple. Iconic Dishes Anthony Rose was already on every list of Toronto culinary legends from his Drake Hotel days. Fat Pasha took his reputation global. Iconic Dishes Some of Union restaurant’s most iconic dishes were dreamed up in a pickup truck before opening night. Ten years later, they’re still on the menu.
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Will the latest reboot of the Melody Bar revive the Gladstone’s rizz?

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
On October 25, the Gladstone’s Melody Bar will get yet another reboot—this time as Cassette, a “retro-inspired restaurant and performance venue” promising a martini menu, diner-inspired food (pigs in blankets, burgers) and a monthly residency with Canada’s Drag Race alumna Tynomi Banks. It’s the hotel’s latest attempt to recapture the creative pulse that once made it the beating heart of West Queen West.
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What to eat, drink and do at the city's new arcade bars

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Why just drink a beer when you can pair your pint with a game of Pac-Man, ping-pong or pinball? Toronto’s nightlife has gone full barcade. Here, eight spots in the city where the menu comes with a side of fun, plus what to order at each. Oche Forget the dingy darts pubs of yore: this sleek King West game hall pairs nostalgia with tech. Thirteen interactive dartboards track your score (and remind you of the rules once the cocktails kick in), and the shuffleboards are tricked out with digital tallies.
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The Old Spaghetti Factory's new sister spot is nothing like the kitschy red-sauce restaurant

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Name: Eloise Contact: 42 The Esplanade, eloiserestaurant.ca, @eloisetoronto Neighbourhood: St. Lawrence Owners: Graham and Dan Hnatiw (Old Spaghetti Factory, Scotland Yard, Bar Cathedral) Chef: Akhil Hajare (Alo, Alo Bar, Bangkok’s Gaggan) Accessibility: Fully Accessible For more than half a century, the Hnatiw name has been stitched into the fabric of Toronto’s dining scene via the Old Spaghetti Factory, that 54-year-old temple to red sauce on the Esplanade.
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This $7,000 drink is Toronto’s most expensive cocktail

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
From the restaurant that brought the city a $1,000 surf-and-turf platter comes a new stunt for the 0.01 per cent: the $7,000 Diamond Drip at Animl is now Toronto’s most expensive cocktail. Related: The $1,000 surf-and-turf platter at this King West steakhouse is Toronto’s wildest new splurge It’s not a hard-to-find Pappy Van Winkle or a dusty Louis XIII cognac driving the price of this over-the-top tipple.
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Five Toronto bars (and one castle) hosting creepy Halloween pop-ups

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
When the mercury dips and the leaves begin to change colour, two types of people emerge: pumpkin-spice devotees and spooky-season enthusiasts. We’re proudly Team Halloween. Here, six pop-ups guaranteed to scare up some fun.
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The Well is getting a swanky Mediterranean and Asian supper club

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
The Well keeps padding its already impressive culinary resumé. Toronto’s glossiest new mall opened with a who’s who of local restaurants and retailers, but lately it’s been attracting splashy international tenants as well.
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Toronto's most-hyped pizzeria is getting its own chip flavour

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Miss Vickie’s is going full carbs-on-carbs with its latest collaboration: the Canadian kettle-chip giant teamed up with Pizzeria Badiali, Toronto’s most-hyped pizza parlour for four years strong, on a vodka sauce flavour. Related: A super-popular pizzeria in Little Italy just opened a bar next door Crispy potatoes dusted with tomato tang and cheesy fat—it’s the consolation prize for when you round the corner at Argyle and Dovercourt to see the weekend line snaking into oblivion.
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Why Abbey Gardens should be on your road-trip list

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
If eco-apocalyptic anxiety has you bracing for a Mad Max future, Abbey Gardens may be the antidote. Once a desolate 300-acre gravel pit, this swath of the Haliburton Highlands has been rehabilitated into a verdant refuge—a living rebuttal to your recurring nightmare of Ontario morphing into the Wasteland. This isn’t some government mega-project but the vision of a lone local octogenarian, John Patterson.
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Where to eat, drink and party like a celebrity during TIFF

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
TIFF turns 50 this year—half a century of standing ovations, step-and-repeats, and that brief window when star-spotting becomes a citywide sport. A-listers roam the streets, jaywalking on Queen West, grabbing lattes like the rest of us and getting the best seats at our restaurants. Whether you’re fuelling up before a premiere or chasing cocktails after the credits, here are 15 places where you can see and be seen during this year’s film festival.
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This free sculpture garden is less than 3 hours away

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Imagine if Stonehenge had been built by one man with a cement mixer, a wheelbarrow and a stubborn refusal to stop. That’s Screaming Heads: an open-air opus by septuagenarian Peter Camani, who has spent the past four decades turning his 310-acre Almaguin Highlands property into a surrealist playground of towers, dragons, shrieking trees and screaming monoliths.
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A new life for a former military base in PEC

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Long rows of concrete barracks sprawl across a 70-acre plateau on the edge of Picton. Some have been buffed into sleek venues; others are quietly crumbling, with peeling paint, boarded windows and crooked chimneys. Welcome to Base31, Prince Edward County’s most unexpected cultural destination: a semi-preserved military relic that’s part Second World War ghost town, part creative playground. The site has had three distinct lives.
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1 Hotel has launched free pop-up pickleball courts

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
August is Leo season, but somewhere along the way, it also became National Wellness Month. Call it a made-up holiday or a clever rebranding courtesy of late capitalism. Either way, it’s 31 days devoted to yoga, meditation, digital detoxes and other self-care rituals, just in time for the last, slightly frantic weeks of summer. At 1 Hotel Toronto, they’re marking the occasion by transforming their reflecting pond into two glossy pickleball courts sponsored by Roots.
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One of best stargazing spots in Ontario is less than three hours away from Toronto

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
In Toronto, spotting Orion’s Belt is a small miracle. The Big Dipper? Maybe, if you can catch it between condo towers and billboard glare. Most nights, the stars don’t stand a chance against the city’s light pollution. But, just two and a half hours east in Erinsville, the Lennox and Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area delivers the stars in HD.
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Travel International | Windsor Star

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By Caroline Aksich Verified, Jody Robbins Verified, Monica Zurowski Verified
| Windsor Star Verified
Skip to Content Local News Local News Local News Local News Local News LOCAL SPOTLIGHT Find the best places within Windsor. From local businesses to food to medical to legal services. You can manage saved articles in your account. and save up to 100 articles! You can manage your saved articles in your account and clicking the X located at the bottom right of the article.
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Southern Ontario's most scenic white-knuckle ride is just a two-hour drive from Toronto

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Looking for an adrenalin rush without the parking-lot-induced migraines of Canada’s Wonderland? Then head due west about two hours to the Elora Gorge Conservation Area, where southern Ontario’s most scenic white-knuckle ride is carved straight out of limestone. It’s equal parts thrill and chill: a winding two-kilometre float through a 22-metre-deep gorge punctuated by three splashy rapids that last just long enough to make you scream-laugh and cling to your tube handles.
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Toronto's Pedal Pubs can now legally serve booze on board

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
The rolling bars have teamed up with Collective Arts brewing to boost tourism Doug Ford may hate bike lanes, but he’s surprisingly chill about pedal-powered party wagons disrupting downtown traffic. This week, Pedal Pub Toronto became the first of its kind in the province to snag a liquor licence, meaning those odd-looking contraptions—like someone welded a spin class to a dive bar—can now legally serve booze on board.
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You can find 350-million-year-old fossils less than three hours from Toronto

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Sure, Jurassic World: Rebirth may be getting lukewarm reviews, but don’t let Hollywood’s franchise fatigue kill your childhood obsession with paleontology. Instead, spark some real wonder with a day trip to Rock Glen Conservation Area, where 350-million-year-old fossils are scattered along the trails—and admission is just $4.25. Long before the first T. rex took a thunderous step, this patch of southern Ontario sat beneath a shallow tropical sea.
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The Old Spaghetti Factory is getting a sister restaurant and speakeasy

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Toronto has some restaurant royalty hiding in plain sight. For over 50 years, the Old Spaghetti Factory has dished out meatballs, marinara and maximalist kitsch from the heart of the Esplanade. Now, brothers Graham and Dan Hnatiw—heirs to that red-sauce empire—are trading in the telephone booths and Tiffany lamps for something sleeker: Eloise, a refined 85-seat restaurant, and Bar Cart, a sort-of-secret cocktail lounge tucked just behind it.
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The $1,000 surf-and-turf platter at this King West steakhouse is Toronto’s wildest new splurge

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Animl’s most extravagant menu item is meant to feed four hungry, wealthy people At Animl—the Studio-54-meets-safari steakhouse fever dream from Charles Khabouth and co.—restraint isn’t on the menu. Case in point: the new Platinum Surf and Turf platter, a $999 showpiece featuring a tomahawk steak the size of a canoe paddle and a lobster tail big enough to demand co-star billing.
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A popular steakhouse in Little Italy has opened a second-floor speakeasy

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
The team behind J’s Steak Frites has swapped out strip loins for spirits. Just weeks after closing their popular Queen West location, Jad Sfeir and Tara Tang have launched a new concept above their College Street outpost: Bitters and Bloom, a sultry speakeasy serving Prohibition-inspired cocktails and bar snacks. The closure of the Queen West restaurant wasn’t a retreat—it was a reality check. With just 26 seats and a wait list that stretched up to 40 days long, the original J’s had maxed out.
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There's an epic 31-stop cheese tour just two hours from Toronto

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
Forget “Elbows Up” lawn signs—there’s a tastier way to show some patriotism this summer: eating cheese. It’s the 10th anniversary of the Oxford County Cheese Trail, a dairy-drenched 31-stop self-guided tour two hours southwest of Toronto. The official trail includes creameries, restaurants, retailers and a 159-year-old, three-and-a-half-tonne wheel of cheddar that you can visit (but sadly not taste).
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This Toronto restaurant is making Jamaican patties for pooches

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By Caroline Aksich Verified
| Toronto Life Verified
There’s a new way to pamper bougie beagles who expect pup-puccinos with their morning walks and think liver treats are passé. JunePlum—Patois’s sister snack shop next door that sells bottles of Red Stripe and patties packed with things like brisket, curry goat and coconut crab—is now making Jamaican patties for pooches. The idea started when a hard-working service dog dropped by Patois for his human’s birthday.
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